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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Apple continues its dominance
in the U.S.
market as it remains in the top position. Its rival company Samsung is in the
second position while LG holds the third position, according to the latest data
from comScore.

During the three-month period
from December to February, Apple claimed 41.7 percent share of the U.S.
smartphone market, which was 0.1 percent less than the previous quarter that
ended in November last year. Samsung could hold 28.6 percent share of the
market and saw 1.1 percent down from November.

However, third ranked LG witnessed
the increase of share. They claimed 8.3 percent share of the market, which is
0.7 percent more from November. They were followed by Motorola and HTC who held
the market share 5.1 percent and 3.8 percent respectively.

Tech experts are expecting
to see if Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge can help
the South Korea-based company to overtake Apple. To see any change in the
market share in comScore’s data, we will have to wait for at least a couple of
months. Same thing can be said about LG, which is perhaps going to launch its
flagship model LG G4 later this month.

Among all smartphone
operating systems, Google’s Android OS is in the top position of the U.S. market
with 52.8 percent during the three months ending in February. Apple’s iOS
finished second with 41.7 percent. Microsoft, BlackBerry and Symbian are in
third, fourth and fifth place with 3.5 percent, 1.8 percent and 0.1 percent
respectively.

The report also shows that
during the period, 186.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, which
witnessed 5 percent growth from November.